Clarence Thomas Is Not Black Enough To Be Included In Black History Smithsonian

There was recently quite a production made by the White House and the media out of the grand opening of the new National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the latest branch of the Smithsonian Institute.

However, it may come as a surprise to some to learn that a rather prominent and historically significant African-American has been for all intents and purposes excluded from the museum: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

According to The Daily Caller, there was no exhibit or biographical display heralding the accomplishments of only the second African-American citizen to sit on the highest court in the land.

In fact, it would appear that the only mention of Thomas in the entire museum was in the periphery of an exhibit glorifying Anita Hill, the woman who accused Thomas of sexually harassing her during his Senate confirmation hearings in the early 1990s.

“I am not surprised that Justice Thomas’ inspiring life story is not a part of the new museum,” proclaimed Mark Paoletta, an assistant White House counsel who worked on the Thomas nomination during the George H.W. Bush administration.

“Civil rights leaders have tried for decades to malign Justice Thomas because he actually dares to have his own views on race issues,” continued Paoletta. “One prominent liberal Supreme Court practitioner has called Justice Thomas ‘our greatest Justice,’ but you would never know that listening to the civil rights leadership.”

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Indeed, it would seem that because Justice Thomas holds a conservative viewpoint, he was not considered by liberals to be black enough for inclusion in a black history museum.

This despite his history of growing up in the highly segregated and racist Jim Crow-era South, his overcoming of hardship to attend college and earn a law degree, his rebuilding and strengthening of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the Reagan years, or his two decades of jurisprudence from the highest legal bench in the country.

This was just the latest slap in the face from supposedly inclusive liberals to black Americans who happen to be conservative or libertarian in nature, who refuse to willing subjugate themselves to the Democrat Party’s ideology and who instead have chosen to think for themselves.

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